Boy lifting weights at the end of a wrestling practice at a wrestling gym in Darvag, Republic of Dagestan, Russia. Darvag is a monoethnic village located in the southern part of Republic of Dagestan. Having around 3000 inhabitants, all of Azerbaijani ethnicity, it, like many other villages in Dagestan, has a wrestling club. Although not the largest among the neighbours, Darvag and its gym attracts not only locals, but children athletes from several other villages because of a strong coach and civil enthusiast Kavkaz Madayev. Their attendance varies from approximately once a month — in order to fight and get acquainted with a range of competitors — to several times a week, as their standard training.